Allow real competition to reduce medical prices. In the rest of the world, prices are reasonable. In the US, prices and charges are fraudulent in multiple ways.

Generic drugs that cost 10,000x more in the US. Lack of competitive choices in a rigid, backwards medical system that we can get overseas. Medical (lack of, injurious) choices dictated by govt and various sellers rather the paying customer.

Who ALWAYS wins in civil lawsuits? THE LAWYERS! At 1/3 of the settlement they rack up big $$$.

Who are the lobbyists??? THE LAWYERS!

Who are our Congress Offal? THE LAWYERS!

See a bit of collusion there? Lawyers should be completely banned from all public offices!
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An interesting tidbit from the past saved from the Bush era when I was looking at the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Agriculture. The draft was written by Dan Amstrutz, VP of Cargill, the grain traders. Amstrutz was later hired by Goldman Sachs when they decided to get into commodity markets and created the 2008 food crisis — How Goldman Sachs Created the Food Crisis

Monsanto (Calgene) employee Ann Veneman lead the GATT trade delegation and is an International Food & Agricultural Trade Policy Council Member Emeritus. She also worked for Patten Bogg

“We were among the first law firms to recognize that all three branches of government could serve as forums in which to achieve client goals, enabling us to emerge as the nation’s leading public policy law firm, and we have developed our extensive business law capabilities into the firm’s largest practice area.” (wwwDOT)pattonboggs.com/about/overview/

I have fifteen pages outlining the connections between International Regulations, the World Trade Organization, Big Ag – (it is a TRADE organization), and the United States government.

Agri business wants a vertically integrated food system and no competition. They bought the US government to help them put it in place starting with Ann Vennaman, and Dan Amstrutz. The Agreement on Ag was written under Reagan and ratified by Clinton. Now they want to finish the job…. Which they did with the help of Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) co-sponsor of Food Safety Modernization Act (2010).

Food inspections have dropped from a robust 50,000 in 1972 to about 5,000 today, meaning that U.S. food processors are inspected on average about every 10 years. The chance of a food product from overseas being inspected is infinitesimal. Most raw materials for our drugs come from foreign producers that are rarely inspected. The rate of quality-control failures found in manufacturing facilities by FDA inspectors has soared. (wwwDOT)washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/07/AR2006050700907.html

The USDA has decrease the inspection of imported food from 8.0% to 0.6% WHILE IMPORTS HAVE DOUBLED SINCE THE MID NINETIES thanks to the WTO.

This set-up the increase in food borne illness causing the ‘Problem’ blasted all over the news.

The soution of course was more laws and regulations.

This is the specific passage that give the WTO control over US agriculture:

page 121

SEC. 404. COMPLIANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS.
Nothing in this Act (or an amendment made by this Act) shall be construed in a manner inconsistent with the agreement establishing the World Trade Organization or any other treaty or international agreement to which the United States is a party.

“Wherever there is price competition, quality competition tends to follow. Take corrective eye surgery. From 1999 (when eye doctors began performing Lasik in volume) through 2011, the price of conventional Lasik fell about one-quarter due to intense competition. ”

“Eye surgeons who wanted to differentiate themselves from other surgeons, and charge more, began to provide more advanced Custom Wavefront Lasik technology…. By 2011, the average price per eye for doctors performing Custom Lasik was about what conventional Lasik had been more than a decade earlier; but the quality is far better. Occasionally an eye surgeon will offer a daily deal at half this price.”

Dentistry is another example of competition. Although there are dental insurance plans, they are not as universal nor as extensive as medical insurance. Without influence of insurance companies , government or lobbyists, dental care has progressed with preventative care and costs have not increased at the pace of healthcare.

Plus the equipment is much better, resulting in less or no pain, supplies are better so fillings are faster, plus you can pay (with a nice discount) on your way out the door!

Canadian prescription pharmacies also offer nice discounts to big(ger) individual customers, and they offer generics for drugs not yet supplied in the U.S.

They also offer price-matching, which proved to be a great benefit for me recently when I found my prescription at another Canadian pharmacy at a much lower price than the first one was charging. Now the first one matches the second price and still gives me the big discount. It pays to do your research!

This is something America’s entrepreneurs learn in their first year out of college, Chuck…

When you have 1,000 people who are jobless, you have no cash in the bank, and you need a new factory to employ them, only a fool would say the factory has to pay for the debt to build it before it’s built.

Thank God for the consequences of the 2016 election delivering to American Patriots President Trump; elected to renew the American spirit. Chew on that the next time you cry about the popular vote, Toadie.

Did You Know?
In 17th-century Europe, a toadeater was a showman’s assistant whose job was to make the boss look good. The toadeater would eat (or pretend to eat) what were supposed to be poisonous toads. His or her charlatan master would then “save” the toad-afflicted assistant by expelling the poison. It’s little wonder that such assistants became symbolic of extreme subservience, and that toadeater became a word for any obsequious underling. By the early 1800s, it had been shortened and altered to toady, our current term for a servile self-seeker.

Todd could merely grab onto a few naysayer transitions. This one was especially odious: he called the facts that VP Pence was relating to him – big crowds and unanimous support in PA, the inspired American workers knowing that POTUS is fighting for them every day – he called this topic “atmospherics”. Todd said to our VP, “All right, lets get out of atmospherics, let’s get into details…”

It’s so funny how it played out. People said ” You need Flynn because Trump doesn’t know shit about world affairs” and here we are. All you need for President is someone with real world common sense and advisors that know what you don’t so you can make the decision based on the varying PoVs.

Why doesn’t the MSM Toad get the fact that they are the ones incapable of “reaching out”? Could it be that those “3 million” are their only audience? They continue to gnaw from their butt hurt “popular vote” bone, like “gnats”.

Chuck lost me at Obamacare failure is debatable. Spoken like someone who never had or knows anyone who had it. I had it. it nearly broke me financially. A friend of mine still has it and is down to one choice of insurer. It is pathetic and I am beyond blessed I got a great job with great benefits and don’t have that terrible insurance anymore.

Okay, I tried. I tried, and I failed. I couldn’t watch past the 1:30 mark (or so), where that nobody of an interviewer uttered the “…it seems that Washington has either moved or defeated him…” [meaning President Trump].

My answer, were I being interviewed?

“BWAhahahahaaaahahaaa….AAAHHHHahahahahahaaaa!…..BWAHAHAHAAAAAHAHAhahahahaahaahaa…hahaa…heh….heh… Heh. –Oh, I’m sorry, was that supposed to be a ‘serious question’?”